Summary and Recommendations
Methodology
I. Background
II. "We Look for the Husbands in the Forest": Unresolved Disappearances
Enforced Disappearances by the Kenyan Armed Forces
Three Women's Stories
Disappearances by the Sabaot Land Defence Force
III. Government Response to Disappearances and Other Abuses
Failure to Investigate
The Police Report
The Military Statement
The Parliamentary Report
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Report
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Hearings
Lack of Initiative in Undertaking Further Investigation
Lack of Witness Protection
Failure to Exhume Mass Graves
Difficulties in Accessing Death Certificates
IV. Status of Attempts to Seek Justice
Enforced Disappearance Cases
Bungoma Habeas Corpus Case
Preparation of a Complaint before the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Other Human Rights Cases Filed
The East African Court of Justice
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
V. Kenyan and International Law
On Enforced Disappearance
On Other Human Rights Abuses Committed at Mt. Elgon
Mt. Elgon, the International Criminal Court, and the Post-Election Violence
VI. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Letter to Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, May 10, 2011.